Director, PMO
Location: US, TX, Austin
Department: PMO
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Director
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Computer Software
Function: Project Management

Company profile:
We're an emerging technology agency, and we build breakthrough products through user-centered design. We're building a team of the brightest minds in creative, engineering, and business because we love working with smart people. 

Job description:
Do you want to make impactful products that solve real user needs? Do you believe in iterative development where there’s always room for improvement? Our people strive to find innovative solutions while demonstrating empathy, promoting collaboration, never being satisfied with end results, and expressing opinions in delicate situations. Mutual Mobile is looking for a Director, PMO that exemplify these values, our values.The Director, PMO is responsible for the dual role of providing structure and overall vision on our most complex projects and providing oversight and leadership for a key area of our business. The role requires a combination of excellent project management skills, strategic thought leadership  and experience managing direct reports. S/he will interface heavily with client senior executives, technical resources, and product managers to assure that the solution is understood and addresses the customer's business requirements. As a primary member of the account team, they are responsible for managing client relationships and project deliverables. In addition to the project responsibilities, this person will be a key member of the executive team. This person will be responsible for providing senior leadership, career management, and coaching to 5-7 direct reports.Key ResponsibilitiesDirect the activities of a global group of direct reports, including staffing, coaching, career management, performance evaluation/improvement, and issue resolution.Ensure utilization and staffing of project management resources on projects related to their area of expertise.Develop the skills and expertise of the Project Management team.Guide and advise the company on its overall strategy.Work with the pursuit team to complete RFP's project scoping, staffing, and pricing estimates.Provide senior leadership and guidance to a group of products to ensure successful delivery in an oversight capacity.Develop and maintain all project deliverables including project charters, budgets, project plans, issues logs and change orders etc.Responsible for ensuring that all needed assets and resources are identified to successfully meet client expectations.Assure that projects complete according to schedule and within budget.Drive project delivery through effective use of internal and client status meetings.Direct the development and delivery of project vision.

Requirements:
Bachelor's degree required, Master's degree preferred.At least 15+ years experience managing multiple large, complex and cross functional projects, preferably in a consulting or agency environment.At least 7-10 years of leadership and/or management experience.At least 5-7 years managing direct reports.Experience in strategic planning and execution.Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, negotiating, influencing, facilitation, organizational, prioritization, decision making, and conflict resolution skills.Demonstrated ability to assume a leadership role in managing project, departmental and enterprise risks related to projects, systems and business analysis.Demonstrated ability to motivate staff/project team, inspire teamwork and take a leadership role.Successful history of client contract including experience in setting and managing client expectations.Strong understanding of project management methodology including the ability to identify and resolve issues, manage risk, develop detailed work plans and specifications, perform resource allocations and run team meetings.Ability to work on multiple projects and manage multiple project managers and/or senior project managers at one time.Strong knowledge of software development life cycles, web technologies, web development processes and the delivery of solutions with creative and engineering components.Working knowledge of contract interpretation, negotiation, and management.Experience working in Agile environment expected.Strong verbal and written communication skills.Proven team-building skills.Ability to solve problems with keen instincts and organizational experience.

Benefits:
Why work for Mutual Mobile? We craft beautiful mobile interfaces and solve complex software challenges. Clients such as Google, #URL_699b900bfe4fc170a8a4e9c99ccfe3243461eb6625234e567ad654ad842c2243#, Citi, and Xerox come to us for our deep experience in mobile — from establishing a mobile strategy that provides impactful business value, to building those solutions from the ground up. We bring together the brightest minds in interactive &amp; visual design, engineering, and business to deliver solutions that actually matter.